Jewellery making is a unique way to allow your creativity to
come to light and design something that suits you and your style. As a beginner, you make take a little longer
to find the right colours for you piece of new jewellery, but make sure you
choose colours that don’t clash. Find
colours that compliment you – and the only way to do that is to experiment with
colours.
Colours can be difficult especially when you don’t know what
colours suit you. But it is entirely up
to you. You may like clashes of colour
or you may like pastel colours. Be free
and explore the potential.
Designs are the hardest to come by. When I began jewellery making, I was trying
to think of a new way to design jewellery pieces – in a way that hasn’t been
done before. It is surely
brain-aching. But who knows, let you
mind explore the possibilities of shapes and lengths when designing your
pieces.
Also, jewellery making takes time. Patience is key. The more you practice the quicker you
become. So get started and in the
beginning it may take 3hours to create a necklace but a year later it may take
only half an hour. Earrings in the
beginning can take an hour, but more experience changes that into only
5mins. You become more skilled in your
jewellery making, and your knowledge of how to make something is working
faster, therefore your hands are working faster.
Out of all of this, jewellery making needs to be
unique. When I began I started trying to
copy what was being sold in the shops and then selling it at the same price,
but no one seemed interested. So I began
looking at other people’s jewellery pieces that were handmade and I was amazed.
I was amazed at how original their pieces were. I thought to myself – I would buy something
like that. It got me thinking...make
something that is unique to others and that you can’t find anywhere else and
then that is when true unique styles start evolving. It is good to get ideas from others, but
avoid by all means in copy everything about theirs – give it a new twist, could
be something the other designers hadn’t thought of and that you could add to
your creations. It’s what makes your
work unique.
In the end, enjoy everything that you do: explore colours,
come up with crazy designs, have patience, and most of all be UNIQUE.
